Jockie to the Fair
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Transcription: 03/28/2022 18:58:11 by Darryl D. Bush
"Jockie to the Fair", also known as "An Marcach Chuig an Aonach",<br> "Jogging to the Fair" and "General Action"<br> is an English (originally) Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time) and March;<br> Irish Jig or Set Dance and American Country Dance (6/8 time) in G Major.<br> The melody, dating at least from the mid-18th century, was a popular tune<br> throughout England and served several functions, including dancing and marching.<br> Morris dance versions are wide-spread and numerous and have been collected from<br> many villages in England's Cotswolds.<br> One version of the tune was used as a march in the British army during the<br> Revolutionary War period. The word 'jockey' is Scots in origin and derives<br> from the word 'joculator', which by the 17th century meant an itinerant minstrel.<br> Novelist Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) mentioned "Jockey to the Fair" a few times in<br> his novel Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), where it was played by his<br> character Gabriel Oak, a bachelor shepherd.<br> It was printed in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign<br> Airs, vol. 2 (1785), Bacon's A Handbook of Morris Dances (1974), Harding's All<br> Round Collection (1905), Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk<br> Dance Airs (1951), Mallinson's Mally's Cotswold Morris Book, vol. 1 (1988),<br> Mallinson's Mally's Cotswold Morris Book, vol. 2 (1988), Neal's Espérance Morris<br> Book, vol. 1 (1910), O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), Raven's English Country<br> Dance Tunes (1984), Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 2 (1912)<br> and Skillern's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1780 (1780). <br>
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